St.
Gallicanus was consul under Constantine and, after moving to Ostia, he devoted
himself to the care of the sick. He suffered martyrdom under Julian the
Apostate (361/363)

TWO WARDS

One for
male and one for female, separated by the church

ROOM FOR
BOYS

1754 Costantino Fiaschetti for Benedict XIV Lambertini
(1740/58)

ANATOMY
THEATRE

1826 for
Leo XII Sermattei (1823/29). Two semicircles with a dome

Stucco
frieze “Legend of the serpent of Aesculapius and the Tiber Island and portraits
of famous doctors” by Ignazio Sarti (1791/1854)

APOTHECARY 1929

CHURCH

It was
consecrated in 1726

It has
inner side windows to allow the sick to attend Mass

Altarpiece “St.
Gallicanus recommends three sick people to the Virgin Mary” and two lunettes by
the great Roman painter Marco Benefial
(1684/1764)

“After 1723
he had another difficult period, during which the painter bent again to enter
into an agreement of “partnership”, with Filippo Evangelisti, a mediocre pupil
of Benedetto Luti, under whose name went many paintings which were completely
by Benefial instead, for example, St. Gallicanus and the Sick in the church of
St. Gallicanus in Rome, clearly inspired by Correggio and the Carraccis”
(Evelina Borea - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)